Narrating Earl claims the power went out on midnight of New Year's Eve because Donny's sister forgot to pay the electricity bill. However, the power cannot be shut off remotely, let alone by timer-control. Employees need to be sent to the house to do that. They would not be sent out in the middle of the night during the holidays when everybody but emergency skeleton staff has the night off. It would probably not even happen before 2 January.
A 2004 Dodge Stratus is seen in the New Years Day Parade on 1 January 2000,.
Just before Earl tricks Donny with the licked cookie trail, when Donny is dancing you can see the cameraman moving in on the televisions to the right of screen.
The camera crew is reflected in the corner of the television screen when Earl is putting down the Oreo cookie outsides to steal a TV from Donny.
In one of the scenes where Donny Jones is looking at himself with the video camera, you can see the camera man on the left-hand side of the screen for about two seconds.
When Donny is dancing in front of the TVs on 1 of them you can see a camera man walking in to film him on one of the TVs beside Donny.
This episode claims that Crabman is in the witness protection program, but in episode 1-8 where Darnell and Joy get married his mom and sister are part of the wedding. People in witness protection have to sever all ties to friends and family to protect them.